Microsoft Excel has been a part of our lives for around 40 years now and for the first 30-35 years of its life, we were treated to an ever growing core of Excel functionality that was released to us every year or two. Ever since they introduced Office 365, however, that landscape changed and now we see changes, sometimes game changing updates all of the time. Keeping abreast of developments and learning to work with them can be a challenge.

For this course, we assume that you are already an intermediate user of Excel: that will mean you already have at least five years of beginner and intermediate experience under your belt. It also means that whether you are aware of the latest changes to Excel or not, you are ready to welcome them into your Excel life and accept the challenge of mastering them. We will be using Excel 365 throughout the course, although Excel 2024 may be a substitute if you have that. Excel for the Mac does not have everything you need for this course.

Rest assured that the contents of this course will not only be aimed at accountants, financial modellers, sales, marketing and HR personnel but we welcome engineers and scientists, too. Some of the examples we will be using will be directly relevant to engineers, for example. There will be statistical work as well and that should appeal to everyone, whatever their background.